Ziebach County, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,740 ft 835 m2,460 ft 750 m2,320 ft 705 m2,030 ft 620 m1,750 ft 535 m1,610 ft 490 m
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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ziebach County averages about 2,270 ft (690 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,610 ft on the southeast side to 2,739 ft on Thunder Butte.
Average elevation
2,270 ft 690 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,739 ft 835 m
on Thunder Butte
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the southeast side
Ziebach County spans about 1,130 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,270 ft690 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Thunder Butte (NGS survey height) | 2,739 ft835 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,610 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
62 mi south to north through Dupree.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 2,418 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,961.2 sq mi + 9.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Meade County2,760 ft
- Perkins County2,600 ft
- Haakon County2,290 ft
- Ziebach County2,270 ft
- Corson County2,100 ft
- Dewey County2,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Dakota14th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States539th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thunder Butte2,739 ft
- Marple Butte2,590 ft
- Rattlesnake Butte, Ziebach County2,550 ft
- Mud Butte, Ziebach County2,500 ft
- Eagle Butte, Ziebach County2,490 ft
All 4 towns in Ziebach County by typical elevation
- Eagle Butte partly2,430 ft
- Dupree2,370 ft
- Bridger1,870 ft
- Cherry Creek1,730 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.